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Jul 4, 2012

from anthony pitch. for the next half hour he talks about his book "the burning of washington: the british invasion of 1814" and answers questions from callers. >> you're looking at a dress belonging to first lady dolley madison that is thought to have been made from the red velvet curtains she saved from the white house as british troops advanced on washington. this is "american history tv" on c-span 3 where we're taking your calls and comments on the war of 1812. we want to open up the phone lines with a reminder of the numbers for those of you on the east coast and the central time zones is 202-737-0001. in the mountain and pacific time zones it's 202-737-0002. make sure you mute your television when you call in. we will get to your calls on the war of 1812, in particular in this segment on the burning of washington. >>> we are joined by anthony pitch. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> you have brought along not only your book but an artifact. we saw an artifact of dolley madison. this is of james madison. tell us what your viewers will see here

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Jul 15, 2012

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Jul 15, 2012

>> business news from the capital region. this is "washington business report" with abc7 national correspondent rebecca cooper. >> thank you for joining us. we are looking at busiss and finance. i am in r rebecca cooperer. she will be back next week.k. future tax rates. i'm wonderingng how the campaign will impt area businesses? that will be the topic of our roundtable segment. but first, a look at the increasingly important business sector. the economy of tourism. capital tourism added up to an estimated $6 billion for our area in 2011. we are glad welcome back to the show elliotott ferguson fromm destination d.c. thank you for being with us. thank you for having me. >> y you have good news. a lot of people are struggling. we are really excited about what the tourism industry means for washington d.c. >> ok so $6 billion. and that accounts for -- how many jobs does that count for in our area? >> putting it in perspective, $6 million represents 70,000-plus jobs for washington, d.c. we paid $24 less in taxes for the money that is generated for washington. >> that is nexto the f

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by taking a little trip back in time. and we're going to a day in april of 1922. on the mall in washington somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people have gathered for the dedication of the lincoln memorial. there are parades, survivors from the civil war. people drove, they walks. there was an air of festivity throughout the town. as you know, at the time -- and you may not know in this history -- washington is itself also in addition to be in the seat of the country, washington is the seat of the black elite of america. the black people who served in reconstruction governments in the south were driven out after the collapse of reconstruction, and many of them retreated to washington, d.c. we have there a pbs pinch back lieutenant governor of louisiana who comes there, the gentleman who was the senator from mississippi blanch k. bruce. we have many, many celebrities there. we have also howard university, which is itself a real seat of the black intelligence, too. so we have this town. we have this big celebration. people turn up to dedicate the memorial. the black elites who turn up, and

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Jul 9, 2012

washington d.c. they did not have any kind of washington presence. now they all have a pretty prominent washington presence and growing. >> guest: yes. they not only did not care much about washington, they were pretty much determined to ignore government. at think it was sort of value to some extent, but there were -- they were living in this world where they thought there were changing the world by innovating . we don't have any trouble raising money. we don't have any money -- trouble attracting talent, and we can see right before our eyes that the whole world is actually changing because of the product and make. so on like those old industries here, oil, railroads, whenever, we don't need to do with the government. obviously they have legal departments that were involved in making sure they complied with regulations. you know, in the ensuing time there really built up their lobbying. even then it was many years before apple had more than a couple people here in d.c. and now, as you point out, they all have significant offices here. in some cases not only, but they actually have a li

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Jul 4, 2012

the washington nationals. washington scores twice in the inning putting them up by eight runs. the nationals win big time 9-3. >> an annual tradition, nathan's hot dog eating contest. the man to beat is san jose native joey chesnutt, he has won the coveted mustard belt five years in route cloutier last year when he ate 64 hot dogs in a matter of minutes. the grand prize this year is $10,000. >> leaky roofs, faulty wiring, the bay area's school at the center of the lawsuit. >> this morning, the pitch to charge one of richmond's main attractions >> oakland police need your help to find for children they believe may be at risk after a 3 year-old was found unresponsive. we will tell you what happened. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Jul 10, 2012

. you're not going to hear this much in washington because most people in washington never had a real job. and don't really understand that you have to risk your life savings, risk capital, take out loans to start a business, to hire employees, to buy equipment and hoping that you'll find a customer. hoping that you'll find some business. and most people here in washington don't understand the risk that's involved and what you do to help grow the american economy. but as one who took the same kind of risk that all of you did, i just want to say thanks for what you do for our country and what you do for the communities in which you operate your businesses. listen, as you know i came here as a small business guy. i came here to fight for a smaller less costly and more accountable government. but you know many in washington just haven't quite seen the light as yet. the president and i we get along just fine. but we've got some really different views about how our economy works. as a product of the free enterprise system, i'm a big believer in the free enterprise system and in limited gov

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Jul 5, 2012

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Washington Journal

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Jul 5, 2012

at 9:00, part of book-tv this weekend on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues- >> we continue looking at foreign broadcasters operating in the u.s. and we kicked things up on monday, the first english language newschannel headquartered in the middle east. tuesday, deutsche welle of germany. yesterday we focused on voice of america, the official broadcasting of the u.s. government's and we wrap things up with bbc america tomorrow. today we learned cctv. jim laurie is an executive consultant to the chinese news service based here in washington. thanks for coming in. >guest: thanks for having me. host: tell us about the mission ofcctv and what it has done and the united states. guest: china central television is the largest television presence in the world's largest television nation. it is a state-of, state operated television station, more than 13,000 employees, all round the world, mainly feeding the chinese population with news, current affairs, entertainment, sports and every imaginable kind of broadcasting from beijing and for the entire nation. in recent years, maybe 12 y

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Jul 4, 2012

washington. >> thousands of customers are spending the holiday without power. we will look at the latest numbers. >> late-night storms knocked out power to rehearsals on the national mall for the "capital fourth" concert. will we have more of the same tonight? that is the big question. "good morning washington" at 5:00 a.m. starts now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. happy fourth of july. i am cynne simpson. >> it i am steve chenevey. we will start with traffic and weather every ten minutes. first, meteorologist adam caskey. >> we have areas of rain. a diminishing of interest from complex moving in. moderate rain still falling around hagerstown. light rain in hancock, maryland. that will continue dropping southeast closed to the metro area and the the beltway. most of it will stay north of the beltway. pittsburg getting some heavy rain with embedded lightning and thunder. that should fall apart when it reaches the mason-dixon line. highs around 97 degrees. heat advisory in effect today. pop-up thunderstorms from about 11:00

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Jul 10, 2012

, and the mall is at the back. everyone knew washington, d.c. could grow to the east. which mean this is congress has been wrong from our very inception. so the national mall is really our backyard, but it stretches from the capitol to the lincoln memorial and it also includes the section from the white house to the national memorial and millions of visitors will -- ground be protected and preserves for the future. each year congress has to consider potential changes and additions to the mall and deliberate how each proposal would affect this important resource and it's finite kpas by, the memorial to president eisenhower has gained significant attention and in my opinion the process has failed to achieve the design with the consensus of support. this particular situation has worked out, it's my hope that we can learn from the process, what was done well, and what we as a community can do. the committee must also consider the pace at which new memorials have proliferated in the past decade. we need to -- taken on their own, there are probably thousands of ideas that make sense, the vietnam memori

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Jul 9, 2012

. "good morning washington" begins now. >> rise and shine. it is monday, july 9. >> i'm cynne simpson. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we have a tree down on the northbound george washington parkway. the tree is down near spout run. southbound gw is open. a live picture of the springfield, to reiterate that. more on the traffic side in just while.e of the because storm's over night. 5:01. it is unsell because of a cold -- it is unsaddled because -- it is onfund because of a cold front. some steady but lighter rain into prince william county approaching manassas and shenandoahf into the valley after upper montgomery county and frederick county we have that on going rain, all east. west to anywhere from 85 to 90. most of the rain will be this cannot rule out some thunderstorms this afternoon, especially south of washington. >> thank you. 5:02. breaking news. police shot and killed eight after they said he opened them.n >> we are live from the scene with details. >> this is still going on in a active investigation out here. we have the fairfax county command units. th

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Jul 16, 2012

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Jul 16, 2012

>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> straight ahead, a new problem for metro. technicians try to determine what exactly caused a computer problem on the weekend that forced the system to shut down. good morning, washington. it's monday, july 16. glad you are starting the week with us. i am cynne simpson. >> i am natasha barrett. good morning steve. >> a mild start to our monday morning. the humidity, you will notice. 77 degrees at reagan national, 79 in quantico. western maryland, 66 degrees in oakland. live super doppler 7 shows the showers from last night are gone. we may have an isolated showers today during the late afternoon. that should not amount to much. 92-97 for the daytime high, nighttime lows in the '70s. tomorrow could reach 100 degrees. let get an update on the rush-hour commutes with lisa baden. >> overnight construction is already gone on the beltway near tyson's corner. they are removing it from the beledweyntway. green light between richmond and baltimore 495. 270 is normal. looks good at the dulles toll way. headlights are

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Jul 3, 2012

, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> i don't know how much more i want to hear about that story but we will have that coming up. good morning, washington. it's tuesday, july 3. i am steve chenevey. >> i am cynne simpson. let's check in with lisa baden and meteorologist adam caskey to find out what the forecast looks light. >> i cannot get that voice out of my head from the urinal. let's look at live super doppler 7. we have a few showers right now with no lightning or thunder. downpours and senior is county south of 235 approaching tall timbers -- downpours in st. mary's county. 77 degrees for the high temperature in arlington -- for the current temperature in arlington, on our way to the '90s for the afternoon. now to lisa baden. >> she is checking on the hov restrictions. we will have that in a few minutes. we are getting word the restrictions are lifted once again today. she is working the phones. we will get the updates in a few minutes. let's talk more about the recovery efforts which continue after friday's deadly storms across the east coast. >> severe weather been going

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Jul 7, 2012

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Jul 7, 2012

agencies in washington and the tech companies, first of all, did the microsoft antitrust suit, was it just because microsoft got too big? >> he was not just because microsoft got too big. i am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it is not illegal to be a monopoly. it is just a legal to use your monopoly power in a certain way. that is ancient history. there is an antitrust case involving apple and sun book publishers right now. there is a google anti traced -- antitrust case. these are -- it is not the sheer size of these companies. sometimes it tracks the attention of the government as the way they interact with the economy, the way they interact with privacy, the way they interact with commerce. in the case of that will, they are very big in a dollars since. they are big on the impact they have on everyone's lives. obviously, that is going to attract the attention of regulators and enforcement agencies in the city. i will say that i have lived in washington for nearly 40 years and i spent 20 years as a washington correspondent and editor in our washington bureau. before turning to

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Jul 4, 2012

washington," on your side. >> a deadly start to the holiday. one person killed in an apartment fire in southeast washington. >> late night storms halted the rehearsal on the mall. cat -- we can expect more severe weather fortnight's minivet. >> it is july 4. happy holiday. >> happy independence day. with your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. first, adam caskey. >> good morning. four-o'clock 30 a.m. here in the belfort furniture weather center. showers northwest of stunned to -- county start our wednesday. near hagerstown, cumberland, hancock, that is where we have areas of rain. you see that slide into the southeast. we expect most of that to fall apart as it moves towards the metro area. later on, we will get in with thunderstorms popping up randomly across our area. a mixture of sun and clouds. hot and humid. a heat advisory is in effect for the metro area. scattered storms from 11 a.m. to about eight -- 8:00 p.m.. we can expect pop had been -- pop-up of thunderstorms with highs in the upper 90's. 100 degrees is in reach from today until saturday. it will be dry warm, and hum

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Jul 3, 2012

house and just kind of walked out for an hour or two, walking around washington and ordered the secret service not to come with him. people have told us that, but lots of other people have denied it. and i don't think it's true, but it's -- you know, one of those stories. what did nixon do on the eve he resigned? one of the things that he did was prayed with henry kissinger. but there were more hours. maybe he went wandering. who knows? it's very important that it not become a witch hunt to get at reporter's sources and particularly to haul reporters into court that more often than not that the claim of national security has been violated by a newspaper or the press, as ben bradley said many, many years ago, that it's almost always bogus. at the same time, people in government take an oath that they are not going to disclose national security information. and you can have a legitimate jury, it seems to me. but you have to be very, very careful that this does not turn into something that's totally unjustified. president obama the other day made a statement that his white house is not re

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Jul 2, 2012

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Jul 2, 2012

wasn't publishing its results, so it looked like the "washington post" was ahead of the fbi when all it was was reporting some of despite what i'm saying, i don't think it's denigrating the "post" to show that it was that. it didn't like to see the results of its investigation in the newspaper. but it was the newspaper's job before the election as possible. that's no small accomplishment, and i'm -- i'll be the first in line to recognize woodward and bernstein's accomplishment. regardless of whether felt leaked for self-serving reasons or the most principled one. my problem really is not the coverage in the summer and fall of 1972. it's in the book about the coverage because the book is where the fairytale starts. now i actually didn't get a chance to do this before completing my book, but i was recently in los angeles and went through the papers of alan pachula, director of the film "all the president's men." he wanted to make a film that was very true to life. so he actually interviewed all the editors at the "post," woodward and bernstein. and he was told a lot of interesting thin

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Jul 3, 2012

. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome. i'm mary jordan. i'm the editor of "washington post" live which is division of the newspaper which organizes forums and debates. a very special thanks tonight to "washington post" chairman don graham and publisher katherine waynus, our host, and a big thank you to penzance, the owner of the -- warren is a key player in the watergate scandal. and what you're going to hear onstage, there are lots of people in the audience who loomed large in watergate and i see a couple of them there. alexander butterfield, the man who revealed a taping system from the oval office came all the way from california tonight. and earl filbert, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia profited quite a bit on "all the president's men." it was on the sixth floor downstairs in this building that 40 years ago this week there was a botched break-in. burglars working for president nixon who started it all and forever gave the suffix to every political scandal. those sixth floor offices with actually open tonight. 40 years ago they housed the democratic national commit

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Jul 25, 2012

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Jul 25, 2012

inversion en washington la cual se espera beneficie al corredor noreste del pais. entre los planes esta un tren de alta velocidad que conectaria washington a nueva york en menos de dos horas... claudia uceda con los detalles. quieren transformar union station... asi sera su histórica renovación que cente rrocars s,oficiniendasrá l al velad oardmaresidede trorte d veloc en ereste veloce reduciria el tiempo de viaje de washingvince gray/alcalde de washington tren será mejor y "dijo el alcalde de washington vince gray union station es la segunda estación más concurrida de amtrak en todo el país. se estima que hay un aproximado de 1000 000pasajeros por dia. la propuesta no tiene visión enn ere yaue reqa un fu sum dindel parte del gobierno. el alcalde y los concejales de washington dicen que haran todo lo posible para que se convierta en una realidad...mientras los pasajeros opinan... oscar mazariegos/ usuario del tren "seria lo mejor porque uno pierde medio dia en viajar y viene aca cansado de estar sentado." carlos del aguila/ usuario del tren " no seria tan cansado ni tan tenidioso

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Jul 25, 2012

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Jul 25, 2012

this week. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. straight ahead this morning, night forusy crews in prince george's county. with by drowning and apartment fire that left dozens homeless. good morning, washington. wednesday, july 25. i am steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. let's check the forecast with meteorologist adam caskey. getting our relief today. it was 93 degrees yesterday. the highest today will be 88 or maybe 89 degrees in the afternoon. much lower humidity. it will feel much better behind yesterday's cold front. seven the five now in washington, 70 a now in -- 75 washington, 79 in annapolis. , cometoday from 85 to 90 from 0. near 100 tomorrow. >> overnight construction on the on 66y through tysons, beltway, and on the prince george's ounty i have a camera at theyworth avenue where some road work on the inner loop side. as you can see, it's causing a delay. worktermp, a still there university, lanes are splits around that. decent shape aside that. >> in prince george's county, investigators are trying to figure out how teenager drowned pond. news

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Jul 10, 2012

in the immediate washington area. the farther south, the more cloud cover and you encounter showers and thunderstorms toward richmond. not thinking the front will make it further north today, so we'll kind of be in and out of the sunshine with periods of clouds and perhaps a few showers around here later today, although most of the day should be dry. i don't think the area is going to see much of anything. temperature at reagan national, 77 degrees and humidity is 79% and we're off to a warm and humid start. the weather and the look including the five-day forecast in just a moment. back to you guys. >> thank you, tucker. >>> our top stories this morning. investigators are trying to figure out what caused a raging fire at an old d.c. school building. the fire broke out after 11:00 p.m. at webb elementary school in northeast. the school has been shut down since 2008. so far, there is no word of any injuries. >>> another charge in connection with mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. the federal authorities charged jeannie clark harris with donating money in other people's names. she is

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Jul 24, 2012

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Jul 24, 2012

morning washington," on your side." >> will details into friday's move appeared shooting and colorado. we have more on one of the survivors, about to attend college in the d.c. region. it's tuesday, july 24. i'm steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. let's check the forecast with adam caskey. >> its corn to be hot and sticky today. you will feel the humidity. we reached 90 degrees yesterday. the clouds kept us cooler than they will today. we don't have the early morning cloud cover that we had yesterday. 75 at reagan national. 72 in winchester, 74 in hagerstown. strong afternoon storms possible. breezy this afternoon, mid 90's. cooler and drier tomorrow, less humid. very comfortable. lisa baden. >> possible drive in maryland on 270. in good shape on 66, 95 maryland, 95 virginia. 395, there was an accident outbound after the 14th street bridge but before the pentagon exit. everyone is moving. that accident is completely gone. now to news. >> we will start with the latest developments from friday's move appeared shooting in aurora, colorado. the lead prosecutor said that she will talk to fam

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Jul 28, 2012

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Jul 28, 2012

, and harold washington was selected the year before. jesse jackson is raising the banner of independent lab politics. it's our time now. we want our share. than so what we have here is a split that we will see later on among those who think that this is a good strategy and those who go with sort of mondale or the regular sort of white liberal democrats. and ironically enough, most black elected officials, most of them in the black congressional caucus are opposed to the jackson candidacy but there is a rising tide of grassroots activists. jesse gets a majority ed the black vote but hardly among white voters so what we have here is this idea of using the black vote and an accumulation of delegates as a leverage to get the democratic party to sponsor these progressive issues that they seem to be neglecting in the black communities. >> host: so jackson's campaign starts in many ways like chisholm's as one might say a symbolic effort. that is, no one thought he was going to win and he himself didn't think he was going to win, but the effort was really about as you say, amassing those delegates

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Jul 12, 2012

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Jul 12, 2012

anything to do with each other. this is comical. i am a fan of a washington post as a newspaper of national regard, but they ought to be embarrassed for the news piece they wrote on this subject today. romney advisers fed to the washington post and the washington post then deutally rote down what they said. which is that romney and cheney, we swear, they don't even recognize each other. they walk past each other on the street and it's like, i don't even know you. they don't even talk. from the post, people who know both romney and cheney, who were talking to the washington post for, i don't don't what reason, say they have contrasting leadership styles where cheney comes off as sharp tongued, romney projects a sunny optimism. really, washington post? is that what the people who know mitt romney and dick cheney told you to say? there's more reporting. where cheney's beliefs and policies are rooted in conservative ideology, romney's tend to be driven by analytical problem sauving. this is crack washington post reporting. emphasis on the word crack, based on what they were told by romney sourc

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Jul 3, 2012

arbol le cayo encima mientras se dirigia a su casa en washington..ria rono existe con padre...su hija carolina fue herida de gravedadurantetorm de. un arbol le cayo encima lesionando su columna vertebal... "con los vientos tan fuertes que han habido, el arbol ha caido de esa altura, multiplicando la velocidad de la fuerza, la ha tirado de la moto y la ha aplastado" carolina alcalde de 37 aÑos estaba en su motocicleta cuando sucedio el accidente en la calle 15 en washington... le faltaba muy poco para llegar a su casa.. cuando la pesadilla comenzo... esta maÑana, carolina hablo por primera vez despues de est cuatro dias en cuidados intensivos en el hospital george washington.... "escucho que dijo my legs, su mama me miraba a mi yo estaba a atraves de ella y lo unico que le dije fue carolita, descaza por favor" carolina pregunto por sus piernas y es que el diagnostico preliminar es que quedara paralizada desde la cintura a los pies... el arbol causo daÑos irreparables... su padre describe a su hija como una joven muy activa e involucrada en la comunidad.. ella es parte de la organi

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Jul 3, 2012

washington capitals en julio 28...para maÓ gracias silvana, y las escuelas publicas del condado de montgomery, reanudaran su horario parcialmente el cinco de julio... los programas y actividades de verano en los centros regionales abriran en su horario regular..el periodo de los cursos seran extendidos para recuperar los dias perdidos...sin embargo, algunas escuelas todavia permaneceran cerradas por falta de y una joven hispana se une a las victimas de la tormenta del pasado viernes cuando un arbol le cayo encima mientras se dirigia a su casa en washington.. no existe consuelo para este pa..su hija carolina fue herida de gravedad durante la tormenta del viernesado...un a lesionando su columna vertebal... "con los vientos tan fuertes que han habido, el arbol ha caido de esa altura, multiplicando la velocidad de la fuerza, la ha tirado de la moto y la ha aplastado" carolina alcalde de 37 aÑos estaba en su motocicleta cuando sucedio el accidente en la calle 15 hington... le faltaba muy poco para llegar a su casa.. cuando la pesadilla comenzo... esta maÑana, carolina hablo por primera vez des

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Jul 10, 2012

y eextremo, despa una nueve encuesta de cadena abc y el washington post muestra la desicion de la corte de justicia sobre la ley sb 1070 de arizona hanid poco efecto en las preferencia de los votantes, y el presidente barack ama y mitt romneyinuan empatados en la carrera presidencial... fernado pizarro con mas informacion... segun 1 nueva encuesta de la cadena abc y el washington post, el presidente obama y mitt romney estan virtualmente empatados con 1 47% de las preferencias de los votantes registrados. esto a pesar de recientes decisiones importantisimas de la corte suprema sobre la reforma de salud, y sobre la ley sb1070 de arizona, ademas del anuncio de la casa blanca de detener deportaciones de jovenes que se beneficiarian con el dream act. 1 ana temas elcreen que el president obama llla delantera en estados claves. liz lopez, analista democratafueron 2 temas bastante importante para la comunidad, salud, que ya nos esta impactando en terminos inmigracion que es otro. pero todavia tuvo 1 impacto y espero que eso sea reflejado en las elecciones en noviembre. 1 congresista repu

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Jul 9, 2012

of washington. limited sunshine today. highs in the mid to upper 80's with stormeekend daily. >> you will find things slippery around town. road service buckled in bowie. this is the 50 east. they are making road repairs to ready for theg hour.g rush eastbound 50 at 197. closed is the george washington northbound. traffic is forced to go across memorial bridge and into town. a tree has fallen on the parkway. you can see the wet pavement on bridge.ican legion the light volume is helping us out for now. >> now families and business the worke starting off from lastsing damage storms. >> this is a building in fredericksburg. people say they are lucky to be alive. >> take a look at this dance studio. inside about two cheerleaders, teachers, and parents. the windows blew out and was ordered to the front of the building. andhe saw the funnel everybody to get into the room. >> we saw it. some of the parents were as they pulled the kids safety. nobody was home here. the roof of the strip mall was off.d equipment when flying through windows. >> we just started and we just lost it. >> i cannot even tell

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connected with watergate and richard nixon. it didn't help that i lived in washington, d.c., during much of this period. [ laughter ] >> indeed, it was only after i relocated to the heartland that i was finally able to put watergate behind me. [ laughter ] >> and then about six months ago, my friend jen chin from the university press of kansas told me it a new book they were publishing. a new book about watergate. written by an author who would even be willing to come to kansas city on the 40th anniversary of the world's most famous third rate burglary. [ laughter ] >> which plus about 24 hours is essentially what today is. even better, it was a book that would address one of the least satisfying aspects of the whole watergate saga, namely the motivation of that shadowy source codenamed deep throat who only became known to the world at large in 2005 when mark felt, once the number-two man at the fbi, revealed that he was the guy who hung around parking garages with bob woodward. so once an addict, always an addict. [ laughter ] >> jen gave me "leak: why mark felt became deep throat" by m

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admittedly at some level removed -- >> washington. >> yes, washington. does washington act like lee during the revolution? >> all: no. >> what is washington's one crucial priority? >> to maintain the army. >> yes, to maintain the army, okay. to keep the army intact. and that means -- how does that -- so that's washington's strategy is the army must survive so how does that then affect his operational stance? i mean what does washington do then as a consequence of that? >> washington follows a fabian strategy and preserves his army whereas lee should have preserved his army. he knew he could win whatever battles he fought so he just kept on fighting. >> exactly. so you see the different -- i know i had you read the weigley on monday. who does do a fabian strategy? >> johnson. >> during what campaign? >> atlanta. >> atlanta. okay. all right. >> he's criticized. >> who criticizes him? >> the confederates. the people. >> yes, and do you remember who makes that argument? it's sort of in rebuttal to this idea. let me step back. johnston -- sherman is marching on johnston in 1864. sherman is tryi

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Jul 16, 2012

are able to get to their necks stop. reporting live in northwest washington, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thanks for that. looking at the day ahead, several lawmakers will join the u.s. department of transportation and other agencies, announcing the first ever federal safety standard for rail transit systems nationwide. the safety standards were included in bipartisan legislation signed into law by president obama earlier this month. the national transportation safety board has already identified several areas that could improve safety and oversight, including evacuation and rescue features on railcars. >> prince george's county police need your help finding the missing man. 75-year-old oscar harry washington was last seen yesterday morning in the backyard of his mother's home in bowie. he suffers from high blood pressure and memory loss. call police if you seen him. >> turning to the campaign trail, president obama says that he refuses to apologize for its latest attacks on mitt romney. the center around romney's time at bain capital. abc 7 went one-on-one with president obama. brian

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Jul 8, 2012

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> today on "washington journal," terry madonna, he looks at the campaign in ohio, pennsylvania and florida. we examine the impact of the current heat wave will have on food prices. and a professor talks about the future of u.s.-pakistan relations. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> on "news makers," lee sonders from the american federation of state, county, and municipal employees, discusses his plans for the union, the upcoming presidential election, and other related issues. "news makers," today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> we had pulled into the refueling that morning around 9:30. we had more the ship to appear in the middle of the harbor. >> the former commander officer of the u.s.s. cole on the events surrounding al qaeda's october 2000 attack that left 17 dead and 37 injured. >> i was turned back to my desk and doing routine paperwork when, at 11:18 in the morning, there was a thunderous explosion. you could feel all 505 feet and 8,400 tons of destroyer quickly and violently pressed up an

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Jul 10, 2012

on washington. he has been arrested more than 40 times. his just written a new book called, "across that bridge: life lessons and a vision for change." he visited us in our studio and i asked congress member lewis about the voter purge in florida, where the justice department had sued to block republican governor rick scott's controversial effort to remove thousands of registered voters from the rolls, using an outdated driver's license database to ostensibly identify non-citizens registered to vote. >> it is unreal, it is unbelievable that at this time in our history, 47 years after the voting rights act was passed and signed into law, that we're trying to go backward. i think there is a systematic, deliberate attempt on the part of so many of these states -- not just florida, but all across the country. it is not just southern states. to keep people from participating. i think there is an attempt to steal this election before it even takes place, to make it hard, to make it difficult for our seniors, for our students, for minorities, for the disabled to participate in the democratic process.

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Jul 29, 2012

in philadelphia, chicago, washington elected the year before, and so jackson is raising the banner of up dependent black politics. it's our time now. we want our share. what we have here is a split that where we fill will sit later on among those who think it's a good strategy, and those who go with the regular, sort of white liberal democrats. >> host: right. >> guest: ironically enough, most black elected officials, most members of the black caucus are opposed to jackson's candidacy, but there's a rising tide of grass roots activism in the black community. there's a majority of the black folks hardly among white voters, of course, and so what we have here is the idea of using the black vote, his accumlation of delegates as a leverage to get the democratic party to respond to the progressive issues that they seem to be neglecting on behalf the black communities. >> host: and so jack sop's -- jackson's campaign starts with a symbolic effort. that is, no one thought he was going to win. he, himself, didn't think he was going to win. >> guest: right >> host: but the effort was real in amassing deleg

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Jul 30, 2012

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Jul 30, 2012

, washington, dc, and so people -- jesse jackson is raising the banner of independent black politics. it's our time now. we want our share. and so what we have here is a split that -- we'll see later on, among those who think that this is a good strategy and those who go with sort of mondale or the regular sort of white liberal democrat. and ironically enough, most black elected officials, most members of the congressional black caucus are opposed to jackson's candidacy but there's a rising tide of black ac timism in the community. and what we have here is the idea of using the black vote, his accumulation of delegates, at a leverage to get the democratic party to respond to these progressive issues that they seem to be neglecting in behalf of black community. >> host: the jackson campaign starts in many ways like chisolm's, as, one might say, symbolic effort. no one thought he would win. he himself didn't think he would win. but the effort was really about, as you say, amazing -- amazing delegates and gaining inflation in the democratic party. >> guest: and putting issues on the table, issues

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life in washington for the next four years to make sure that doesn't happen to your grandchildren and does not happen to mine. [ applause ] we have no problems in front of us that are insolvable. what we have is a problem with a career status quo that thinks about the next election and places its priority in their own political career ahead of what is in the best interest of this country. our founders understood that. as a matter of fact, one of the things that's not talked about much but was written about a lot at the founding was called the term rotation. only one of our significant founders didn't want to use rotation, ie term limits as part of our founding documents, and they really didn't think it was very important because back then who in the world who want to spend their life in washington, and the same today. have you to ask that question. who would want to spend their life in washington?have you to . who would want to spend their life in washington? no one should. no one should. so where we see the problem as we saw this week with the supreme court is what our founders i

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Jul 28, 2012

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Jul 28, 2012

're raising? tonight on "washington week." this was supposed to be foreign policy week. . >> in dealings with other nations he has given trust where it was not earned, insult where it was not deserved, and apology where it is not due. >> as many of you know, i have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with israel across the whole spectrum of security issues. gwen: but mitt romney's big trip abroad got off to an inauspicious start in preolympics london. >> mitt romney wants to know whether or not we're ready. are we ready? [cheers and applause] >> yes, we are. gwen: do romney's missteps matter? on the message front, the candidates sparred over the president's commitment to business. >> president obama attacks success and we will change that. >> they're taking my words out of context and are flat-out wrong. gwen: a big fight brews over who gets the vote. >> if i don't get the proper birthday certificate and i.d., i won't be able to vote. >> it should be insults to my american that you might be disenfranchised because you don't have the ability to get a photo i

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Jul 10, 2012

's get to it. tucker barnes. good morning. >> good morning. >> and temperatures in the 70s in washington, better than the last few days and celebrate while we can. >> and that is right. >> it's true. >> and wow. we're not panting out here. 77 right now in washington. seventy in dulles. 69 at bwi marshal. and going to be another descent day today, the temperatures in the mid-80s and there will be some clouds around and if you're watching, particularly south of the city, you have a chance of a few showers and a thunderstorm this afternoon. looking at the radar, we're quiet. the farther south you get, the more clouds and better chance of a shower down in richmond and they're getting good showers and the storms. here in washington. just partial sunshine to start your morning with the high temperatures expected to be in the mid- to upper 80s, 87 at 4:00 p.m. and we'll take it. the average daytime high is 89. a few degrees below normal again. >> okay, thank you, tucker. >> spent time to check in with julie wright. >> reporter: a quiet start with no incidents to report as you go around the capi

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Jul 6, 2012

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washington" at 5:00 a.m. starts now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. it's friday, july 6. glad you are with us. i am steve chenevey. >> i am steve chenevey. we begin with traffic and weather every 10 minutes. first, meteorologist adam caskey. more heat. >> today into the weekend. but the weather pattern will shift. may be below average for high temperatures by next week. mid 80's. let's look at temperatures now. 73 in berkeley springs, 77 in winchester fredericksburg and 80 degrees. 81 in lking george, 82 in lorton. mostly sunny conditions, 100 degrees, feeling hotter. tomorrow, 102 degrees and maybe warmer air by the afternoon. slight chance of storms tomorrow, better chance on sunday. not a washout. now to steve. >> 395 near landmark, at duke street it's moving nicely up to the 14th street bridge and into the district, a smooth ride. hov restrictions are in effect. no problems all the way into town from alexandria and arlington. 270 near 118 in germantown everything looks good. no delays in germantown and all the way to

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Jul 11, 2012

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Jul 11, 2012

are getting involved. "good morning washington" begins right now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, july levin. i am kendis gibson. >> we will start things off with lisa baden. good morning. >> it was until an accident at 7100. two lanes are blocked. a little bit of patience this morning. no problems right now as far as traffic on the beltway and we are good on 270. now to the weather with adam caskey. >> we are booking fine right now. -- looking fine right now. dry the next couple of days. everybody until the weekend. let's look at the temperatures. all at 67. 70 -- 70 in arlington. frostburg 60 degrees on the nose. we cannot rule out a few thundershowers along the blue ridge today and tomorrow with highs in the upper 80's. more coming up. >> some breaking news right now , at a train has derailed near the ohio state fair grounds and one of the cars exploded. it is not known what the cars were carrying at the time. people within a 1 mile radius ar

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rain extending out ahead of that. pan hand of west virginia and into washington and frederick counties where it's in the low 70s. mid and upper 70s around the metro area near the bay. yes, we've got this heat advisory in effect south and east for the afternoon hours. that's when we're going to be reaching the mid 90s. by 7:00, though, still not bad. 70s. storms off to the west of the mountains. some of the storms could be severe south and east late afternoon. stay tuned. your friday evening planner is in ten minutes. danella is here now with your first 4 traffic. >> checking out the roads traveling on i-95 in virginia making your way out of dale city. in both directions. here's a live look at the rest area. very clear at this time as you make your way southbound and northbound. northbound from quantico, 64 miles per hour. no issues connecting on 395 and the rails look good. over to you. >> looking at breaking news. right now d.c. police are searching for the person who shot and killed a man overnight. this happened in an alley off of park place in southeast d.c. tracee wilkins is live

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wondering how that would work, taking the example of a recent project, 8 washington. how would that work, using that as an example? i am wondering if i can have, through the chair, if i can ask the mayor's office to shed some light on how something like that would work? >> yes, i am with the mayor's office of housing. maybe i will quickly innumerate with the exemptions are under the charter amendment. first, any project under a development agreement would have separate requirements negotiated through the agreement. projects that are under current readable material or infrastructure finance district would be outside of this fee cap. projects that receive state financing incentives through the state density bonus a bar would be exempted. then we have what i will call the planning exemptions, and there are two categories. one was the broader plan area, 40 acres or more, where there is a zoning change that affects 40 acres or more, the outside committee that we talked about last week would establish a threshold for existing projects within those areas. your question, supervisor campos, relat

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Jul 25, 2012

washington a nueva york en menos de mas adte:. a raiz de denuncias de abusos, ex agentes fronterizos piden al presidente obama tomar el control de la patrulla fronteriza... ademas...en el salvador, el presidente mauricio funes y los partidos politicos del pais buscan soluciones a la crisis institucional... y erde queremos tene cocacion dire d,ribanoa tro rreo eronico com<> tambubiqs faceboington para exigir a la administracion obama tomar el control de la patrulla fronteriza, a la luz de los abusos a inmigrantes documenta do recientemente por la cadena pbs. *+ activistas y un ex agente exigen qu gobierno federal investigue a fondo supuestos abusos de la patrulla fronteriza, recientemente revelados por un documental de la cadena pbs. los abusos incluyen acoso sexualen mayotro documental mostro imagenes de la muerte de anastasio hernandez, tras 1 incidente con la patrulla fronteriza cerca de san diego el 2010. ana perez, presente.orgla muerte de anastasio fue capturada en video. los testigos que acusan de abuso sexual a los agentes, esa persona esta en mexico. se puede ir y se puede investigar

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Jul 3, 2012

they were going to vote. this is a vote that all lies in the metropolitan washington area were set on. there will determine the funding for the bill is real station and five more real stations that go west of dulles airport. loudoun county had been the holdout. what they decided is that they will look at the possibility of creating tax districts not unlike the one have already set up on the route 28 corridor. this will put the burden of paying for the metro and the businesses that will use metro the most. effectively in some of these lectures stations -- in these metro stations, there is great amount of debate and we will have much more on that later this week. >> we have breaking news from north carolina where we are told that the man who put mayberry on the map has died. a close friend of andy griffith has told us that he died early this morning. that is from a former president of the university of north carolina system. he was known as penny taylor, the good hearted sheriff. he was 86 years old. >> coming up, we have new details in a chimpanzee attack that reportedly heard a man fr

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Jul 31, 2012

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Jul 31, 2012

and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> it was a violent tonight in the district. four people were shot. good morning, washington. it is july 31. let's get a check on the forecast. >> a very good morning to you. let's go to live super doppler. those of you in southern maryland, you have a nice view of the bay and the thunderstorms. watch out for the lightning this morning. much of the rain is over the water. those showers are not moving. we do not have much wind to push them. 75 right now in washington. 73 at the airport. on our way to 86 for the high temperature. thunder showers off and on throughout the day. they will be slow moving. we warm up to the mid-90's by friday. >> warming up is going to be the volume of traffic. a lot of construction barrels are going to be moved out of the beltway between the bridge. 66 outside the beltway. montgomery county, right here at university boulevard, everything is free except the long-term work. they were working in greenbelt on the beltway. as far as travel times, 95 between richmond and baltimore good on 66, quiet on 270.

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Jul 29, 2012

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Jul 29, 2012

>> business news from the capital region. this is "washington business repo" with abc7 national correspondenent rebecca cooper. cacaptioned by the national captioning initute www.ncicap.org-- >> thank you for joining us for a look at business and finance and the washington region. facebook fails to imess with their first earnings report. marylands in a special session. we will ha more during our rounundtable coming up p later in the show, the first a look at some businesses motivated by more thajust the bottom line. each were launched d to s succeed but ey are also giving back supporting charitable c causes bending today, we speak to connie gririffith h from gator ron's, t toddracken from frosting bakery and coffee bar and bodil lund from bodil lund jewelry. welcome to you all. connie let me start with you. your business was a labor of love. started out of inspiration f from your husband. >> my husband had a dream to have a business and he had wonderfuful recipes. in 2007, he was diagnosed with als. his dream took a back seat to his disease. in november 2011, i lost him to his d

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Jul 23, 2012

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Jul 23, 2012

>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> it reminds you that even if in the darkest of days life continues and people are strong and people bounceback. >> president obama spent sunday in aurora, colorado meeting with survivors of friday's movie theater shooting. the suspect is expected to appear in court as questions remain on what would drive someone to commit such a senseless act. good morning, it's monday, july 23. i am steve chenevey. >> i am jennifer donelan. let's check the forecast with meteorologist adam caskey. >> it's monday morning 4:31. we had a shift in temperatures on saturday. record cold by temperatures on saturday. it's gotten to be and the mid 90's today with humidity. let's look at the numbers right now. 72 at dulles airport 70 in cumberland and martinsburg. 76 at reagan national, 80 degrees at quantico, 75 in lexington park. spotty afternoon thunderstorms after lunchtime. hot and sticky, mid 90's. tomorrow, mid 90's, tens of storms again. a little cooler and less humid on wednesday. wednesday will be the best day all week. now t

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Jul 27, 2012

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Jul 27, 2012

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Jul 9, 2012

which is they didn't care much about washington, d.c., and they didn't have any kind of washington presence. >> guest: right. >> host: now they all have a pretty prominent washington presence and growing. >> guest: yeah, they not only didn't care much about washington, they were pretty much determined to ignore government, and, you know, i think it was sort of naive to some extent. but they were, they were living in this world where they thought, hey, we're changing the world, we're innovating, we don't have any trouble raising money, we don't have any trouble attracting talent, and we can see right before our eyes that the whole world is actually changing because of the products we make. so unlike those old industries -- oil, railroads, you know, whatever -- we don't need to deal with the government. i mean, obviously, they had legal departments that were involved in making sure they complied with regulations and paid taxes and all that, but other than that they weren't. and the big wake-up call really was the microsoft antitrust suit which in the case of microsoft obviously force

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Jul 19, 2012

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Jul 19, 2012

is it happening now? here's jon lapook. >> reporter: this clinic in everett, washington, has seen more than 250 case of whooping cough this year. 20% more than usual. and it's stepping up its immunization. more than 3,000 case of the illness have been diagnosed in washington state, that's 13 times what they saw by this time last year. dr. thomas clark is at the centres for disease control. >> that's really on track to be a record since the 1940s. and we're seeing similar increases in most states around the country. in fact we're probably on track to have another record year this year in 2012. >> reporter: whooping cough is a respiratory infection that can close airways an be fatal. it's especially dangerous for children. outbreaks in the united states are not uncommon but are usually small with fewer than 5,000 cases a year. but wisconsin and washington state have already reported more than 6,000 cases combined. new york has twice as many as usual. >> kids who are unvaccinate ready much more likely to get pertussis, about 8 times more likely to get whooping cough. >> reporter: it's unclear what

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